The Causes and Consequences of Degeneration of Bio-Diversity

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Some of the causes and consequences of degeneration of Bio-Diversity are as follows:

Bio-diversity means existence of various types of species of animals, vegetation and microorganisms in a habitat. This diversity of living creatures makes the habitat biologically diverse in resources. It contains various species, sub-species, and types. Different species and sub-species have different types of nature and qualities.

These nature and qualities are exploited by mankind for benefit and progress, e.g., we use some types of vegetation for food purpose and some types of animals for transportation and some others for food also. But, this bio-diversity gets degenerating due to some or the other reasons as narrated below:

a. Over exploitation of a particular type of species gets them reduced to such a lower number to sustain.

b. Some species of birds are in danger due to hunting and/or loss of their natural habitats.

c. Some animals are also on the verge of extinction because of hunting, loss of their natural home in forests etc.

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d. Some species of animals and birds are used for medicinal and experimental purposes.

e. Some vegetation has lost their existence due to clearing of forests for mining, setting up of industries/agricultural or human dwelling purposes.

f. Some forests are being destroyed for urbanisation and with them gets destroyed habitation of many species of living beings.

g. Climate change also destroys species because some species cannot adapt to such changes.

Such degeneration of bio-diversity creates imbalance in the food-chain. This does not only affect the nature but also human being and their daily activities. Such changes also destroy “other species dependent upon the diversity, e.g., oceanic activities change chemistry of oceanic climate that destroy corals and some other organisms dependent upon them.

India is one of the 12 countries with most bio-diverse area. So, naturally its economical, cultural and social activities are closely related to them. Extinction of any of them can destroy such practice, e.g., the Royal Bengal Tiger; our national animal itself is at the verge of its extinction. Similarly, destroying forests causes flood, reduction in precipitation and other consequences.

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So, to sum up, we can say that bio-diversity is a natural gift. That is getting degenerated due to mostly human activities.